Andrzej Szejna

Polish politician

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MinisterRadosław SikorskiMember of the Sejm

Incumbent

Assumed office
12 November 2019Constituency33-KielceMember of the European ParliamentIn office
20 July 2004 – 14 July 2009 Personal detailsBorn

Andrzej Jan Szejna

(1973-04-28) April 28, 1973 (age 51)
Końskie, PolandPolitical partyDemocratic Left Alliance (until 2021)
New Left (since 2021)

Andrzej Jan Szejna (pronounced [ˈandʐɛj jan ˈʂɛjna]; born 28 April 1973, in Końskie) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Lesser Poland Voivodeship & Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union, part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs.

Szejna is a substitute for the Committee on Budgets, a member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan and the Philippines.

Education

1999: Master of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics (1998) and Masters of Law University of Warsaw

Career

since 2001: Articled clerk at the Regional Chamber of Legal Counsellors in Warsaw
since 2001: Lecturer (since 1999), Vice-Dean of the Department of International Relations at the University of Insurance and Banking (WSUiB)
since 2014: Teacher of law at the Academy of Finances and Business Vistula in Warsaw
2001-2003: Advisor to the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Finance
2003-2004: Under-secretary of State at the Ministries of Economy, and Labour and Social Policy, then Vice-Chairman of PAIiZ S.A.(Państwowa Agencja Informacji i Inwestycji Zagranicznych, Spółka Akcyjna), responsible for overseas investments and the promotion of exports, subsequently Deputy minister for European Affairs at the Office of the Committee on European Integration
2002-2003: Secretary of the Team on European Integration of the National Council of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) (2000-2002), member of the National Executive Committee (SLD)
since 2002: National plenipotentiary of the Coalition Election Committee of the SLD-UP
Member of the National Council of the SLD (2003)
1997-1999: President of the Students' Parliament of the Republic of Poland
1997-1999: Officer of the Chief Council of Higher Education of the Republic of Poland